RunCPM
cpmhttpd
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RunCPM
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What's the oldest technology you've had to deal with in your career?
I happen to have an emulated CP/M 2.2 installation quick to hand to run old word processors, so let's take a look.
- Running CP/M on the Raspberry Pi Pico
- What is a good "lower level" language to learn after learning python to gain a deeper understanding of computers?
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Ask HN: Are impressive new programs being written for CP/M?
There are no doubt some systems still running under emulation doing the same thing as they were 40 years ago. But the truth is CP/M is dead. Long live CP/M!
It's just hobbyists now. One hacker ported his game to a Kaypro under CP/M a couple years ago: http://www.chrisfenton.com/dd9-kaypro-edition/
Much of the focus is on porting CP/M to whatever new or old Z80 system someone has built or found. I can't think of anything particularly dazzling besides the above, in terms of recent new programs, but here are some pointers if you wanted to write something yourself!
RunCPM is a CP/M Z80 virtual machine under modern OSes for development etc. https://github.com/MockbaTheBorg/RunCPM
CP/Mish is an attempt to bring all the free software CP/M tools together. It is to CP/M as Linux is to UNIX, or FreeDOS is to MS-DOS. A mostly complete, improved, libre reimplementation: https://github.com/davidgiven/cpmish
Also from David Given (and not CP/M specific) is Cowgol. Alpha quality. But it's a self-hosted Pascal/Ada-like language with compiler. Runs on 8-bit systems, at least theoretically. It is written, of course, entirely in Cowgol: https://github.com/davidgiven/cowgol
Millfork is a language which targets CP/M systems, among others. It's a whole-program optimizing compiler for a language somewhat lower level than C, with properties that make it very nice to compile for 8-bit systems like no recursion, and no automatic promotion to 16-bit integers in type handling: https://github.com/KarolS/millfork
SDCC supports the platform with C surprisingly well. I wouldn't call it rock-solid but compared to the above toys it is an industrial quality compiler for the Z80. In fact, C seems to be the most common actual language for hobbyist and the little remaining serious Z80 development, probably ahead of assembly.
If it just reads and writes the terminal and can fit in 64 KB, then a port is probably straightforward.
cpmhttpd
- Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS
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Ask HN: Are impressive new programs being written for CP/M?
I wrote a web server for CP/M a couple of years ago: https://github.com/jes/cpmhttpd and https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/rc2014-web-server.htm...
Since CP/M has no networking support, this also includes implementing TCP/IP inside the web server program, although I only did an extremely superficial job of this: just enough to make it look like it works under normal circumstances. (For example, it has no mechanism to retransmit dropped packets, at least partly because because my machine has no RTC so it has no idea how much time is passing).
It connects to the Internet via SLIP over a serial port to a nearby Linux machine.
The machine that was running it briefly hosted a little web page about my RC2014 and the web server program, but it's too much hassle to keep it running, so it's not up at the moment.
What are some alternatives?
z80 - A z80 emulator written in C99.
millfork - Millfork: a middle-level programming language targeting 6502- and Z80-based microcomputers and home consoles
Z80 - Highly portable Zilog Z80 CPU emulator written in ANSI C
cpmish - An open source sort-of CP/M 2.2 distribution.
RunCPM_RPi_Pico - RunCPM for the Raspberry Pico
cowgol - A self-hosted Ada-inspired programming language for very small systems.
RetroWiFiModem - An ESP8266 based RS232 <-> WiFi modem with Hayes AT style commands and LED indicators
lighthouse-of-doom - A simple text-based adventure game
SI4735 - SI473X Library for Arduino
STM32GENERIC - Generic implementation of Arduino for STM32 boards